Rating: 
Summary: Gritty and beguiling
Review: This is Dibdin at his best - Aurelio Zen continues his litany of faults, idiosyncracies and insights into the most dangerous and beguiling scenario of his career. Caught between feelings for his almost daughter, Carla, and his need to solve the crime, Zen is drawn further into a truly perfect web. The end is traumatic and yet absolutely perfect -- you just have to read your way here.
Rating:
Summary: Personal favourite
Review: This, the seventh in the Aurelio Zen series, is my personal favourite (of the 8 I have read - Medusa yet to come).This one has reasonably complex plotting and at first it was a little difficult to decide whether to try to keep track of which mafia group was which. In the end, I just let it flow, and it did come together in the end. Like with most of the characters in a Zen novel, you can never be sure to what extent anyone (including Zan!) is a 'goodie' or a 'baddie'. There are precarious few 'goodies'!! An excellent addition to the series. The next book "And Then You Die" is like a coda to this one - so make sure you don't read it first by accident!
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